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Seņor.Chilax
10-19-2010, 11:05 AM
Went out to Dana Point with TaperSteve for a little hoop session last night. Hoops were in the water by 7pm. A lot of short bugs. We pulled up well over 25 short bugs for a total of 1 legal. My first time hooping and actually pulling up lobster, what a great feeling. And when that legal came on board, it totally made my night!

I went out this morning to check on the lobster 'aka' Sebastian and I found my turtle 'aka' Chester the Molester hiding out from the rain so I threw the lobster next to him and took this picture with my cell phone.
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/chilax90606/lobsterchester.jpg
stepchild
10-19-2010, 11:23 AM
sweet bro congrats on the first legal....what was the bait u were using.
Seņor.Chilax
10-19-2010, 11:38 AM
Chicken, hot dogs, cat food and an old rockfish I had in the freezer. We were looking for some mackerel but we couldn't make any bait out there. We actually ran out of bait and called in early. The bugs were eating, we just didn't have enough to keep feeding them. But I had TaperSteve chumming the water... HAHAHA! I had to put you on blast Steve, by bad. HAHAHA!
BrandonFish
10-19-2010, 11:48 AM
nice job on the first legal many more shall come! tapersteve Get Er Done!!
Hometown
10-19-2010, 02:27 PM
nice job...............
stepchild
10-19-2010, 04:15 PM
Chicken, hot dogs, cat food and an old rockfish I had in the freezer. We were looking for some mackerel but we couldn't make any bait out there. We actually ran out of bait and called in early. The bugs were eating, we just didn't have enough to keep feeding them. But I had TaperSteve chumming the water... HAHAHA! I had to put you on blast Steve, by bad. HAHAHA!

you had a chummer!!hahahaha,now that is some good bait.also that kinda chumm line should bring in the macs....lol.also congrats again
Thisfool
10-19-2010, 04:27 PM
dude way to go chilax. and to bad for steve but mabey that was your good luck and he should do that every time you guys hit the water.
fishinone
10-19-2010, 04:37 PM
At first I thought you caught the turtle too. lol

Congrats on the legal bug.

Enjoy your dinner.
TaperSteve
10-19-2010, 04:38 PM
Ohh man if only you knew how much worse it got after you left Chilax. I put my van in drive and start going and I hear/feel, thump, thump, thump. thump. I get out and look, sure enough one of the tires on my trailer came off the rim. It started raining. So there I was, sick as a dog, in the rain, taking my wheel off. I headed over to the nearest gas station to fix it. For the life of me I couldnt get the tire to seal. After 6 attempts (bugging the guy at the gas station to turn the air on for me) I decided it wasnt going to happen. Went back and took all the valuables off my boat and headed for home. I was still "chumming" the whole way home. Then I had to wake up 1st thing and go to the local tire shop to get the tire fixed then head back out to DP to get my boat. Geez......I still felt sick going this morning and most of today! Terrible......

All said and done I still had a blast. I want to go again ASAP but imma going to have to look into some sea sick remedies. Anyone have any advice?

TS
Thisfool
10-19-2010, 04:41 PM
Ohh man if only you knew how much worse it got after you left Chilax. I put my van in drive and start going and I hear/feel, thump, thump, thump. thump. I get out and look, sure enough one of the tires on my trailer came off the rim. It started raining. So there I was, sick as a dog, in the rain, taking my wheel off. I headed over to the nearest gas station to fix it. For the life of me I couldnt get the tire to seal. After 6 attempts (bugging the guy at the gas station to turn the gas on for me) I decided it wasnt going to happen. Went back and took all the valuables off my boat and headed for home. I was still "chumming" the whole way home. Geez......even most of today ive still been feeling it!

All said and done I still had a blast. I want to go again ASAP but imma going to have to look into some sea sick remedies. Anyone have any advice?

TS

damn that sucks sorry to hear that steve. when i was younger i would take these pils called dramomena or somthing like that i think. but any way i never got sick even when the watter was verey coppy
TaperSteve
10-19-2010, 04:44 PM
I never get sick when im out on the lake but I know the big blue sea is a whole nother game! I get car sick very easily though.

TS
Thisfool
10-19-2010, 04:47 PM
o yea man your going to have to look into somthing for that.
Seņor.Chilax
10-19-2010, 04:58 PM
Ohh man if only you knew how much worse it got after you left Chilax. I put my van in drive and start going and I hear/feel, thump, thump, thump. thump. I get out and look, sure enough one of the tires on my trailer came off the rim. It started raining. So there I was, sick as a dog, in the rain, taking my wheel off. I headed over to the nearest gas station to fix it. For the life of me I couldnt get the tire to seal. After 6 attempts (bugging the guy at the gas station to turn the air on for me) I decided it wasnt going to happen. Went back and took all the valuables off my boat and headed for home. I was still "chumming" the whole way home. Then I had to wake up 1st thing and go to the local tire shop to get the tire fixed then head back out to DP to get my boat. Geez......I still felt sick going this morning and most of today! Terrible......

All said and done I still had a blast. I want to go again ASAP but imma going to have to look into some sea sick remedies. Anyone have any advice?

TS

NO F'ING WAY! DUDE! I feel so bad leaving you behind. I was just super hungry, I thought I was gonna pass out. Never again man. But what do you think about next Monday. Lets try Newport this time.
TaperSteve
10-19-2010, 05:13 PM
Nah I wanted to chill for awhile after you left and wait for the sickness to go away. Def no worries. You hanging round wouldnt have helped anyways and it was my prob to fix. Thanx for the thought though!

TS
Hometown
10-19-2010, 05:19 PM
I hear the ear patch works best but i think you need to go to the DR to get them.
Ohh man if only you knew how much worse it got after you left Chilax. I put my van in drive and start going and I hear/feel, thump, thump, thump. thump. I get out and look, sure enough one of the tires on my trailer came off the rim. It started raining. So there I was, sick as a dog, in the rain, taking my wheel off. I headed over to the nearest gas station to fix it. For the life of me I couldnt get the tire to seal. After 6 attempts (bugging the guy at the gas station to turn the air on for me) I decided it wasnt going to happen. Went back and took all the valuables off my boat and headed for home. I was still "chumming" the whole way home. Then I had to wake up 1st thing and go to the local tire shop to get the tire fixed then head back out to DP to get my boat. Geez......I still felt sick going this morning and most of today! Terrible......

All said and done I still had a blast. I want to go again ASAP but imma going to have to look into some sea sick remedies. Anyone have any advice?

TS
TFC_arvilJDM
10-19-2010, 06:34 PM
Nice catch bro! I need to get myself into hoopin too. My uncle just bought a boat, now lets see if hes willing to hoop it up!
murrieta angler
10-19-2010, 06:37 PM
Nice bug chilax,
Now you need to get limits!!
Thanks for the report and picture,
Robert
Spaulding
10-19-2010, 08:13 PM
Nice lobster. Take Bonine to prevent the sea sickness. My buddy and I used to lobster hoop on his boat back in the early 2000's and get alot of lobster, the funny thing though was we used to get these big leopard sharks in the nets that would just sit on the bait in the net..When we went to pull ,these nets were sometimes heavy! Along with those spider crabs. Everything would get put back except for our legal lobster catch. Okay, I am done reminiscing. Nice catch!
done-it-again
10-19-2010, 08:15 PM
Congrats on your first one. Now the fever is really going to set in. Dana point can get very busy over the weekend, and its loaded with commercial traps. At least it was the case a few years ago.
E.A.R.G.
10-19-2010, 11:08 PM
sweet
i was tottaly thrown off by the picture of the bug with the turtle.
I was thinking I've had interesting things come up.. but dammmm haha
Seņor.Chilax
10-20-2010, 09:25 AM
Nice catch bro! I need to get myself into hoopin too. My uncle just bought a boat, now lets see if hes willing to hoop it up!
Hooping is lots of fun, it feels like Christmas pulling up those nets, you never know what you're getting. Not like traditional fishing when you feel the strike and the fight is on. It's cool.


Nice bug chilax,
Now you need to get limits!!
Thanks for the report and picture,
Robert
That's the my next goal. Thanks Murrieta.


Congrats on your first one. Now the fever is really going to set in. Dana point can get very busy over the weekend, and its loaded with commercial traps. At least it was the case a few years ago.
Ohh yeah, the fever is on! I heard it gets busy over the weekend that's why we hit it on Monday and there was still a bunch of glows stick on the water. TaperSteve was like, "It looks like a rave out here." HAHAHA!


sweet
i was tottaly thrown off by the picture of the bug with the turtle.
I was thinking I've had interesting things come up.. but dammmm haha
HAHAHA! Lets see what you got. I showed my buddy the picture and he thought I caught the turtle. If anything, other than legal lobster and crab, is caught in my net, I throw it back. I've had that turtle for like 5+ years and someone else owned it before that.
the killa
10-20-2010, 09:36 AM
good job rasta....
Seņor.Chilax
10-20-2010, 09:54 AM
good job rasta....

PRRAA PRRAA! HA! Thank you big dogg.
Korin
10-20-2010, 02:55 PM
For SeaSickness:

I used to get it so Bad!!!

1. Take Bonine (it will not make you sleepy)

2. I Chew Fresh ginger root while at sea (good for nausea)

3. Lastly I wear these wrist bands that push pressure points, that help with motion sickness.

I know this sounds like overkill however I've been sailing maybe ten time and have never been sick while following this routine.

All I know is that I never, ever, ever want to be seasick again, it was that bad.

I love the water and now I can enjoy the sea again.

Hope this helps,
Korin
Lady Loves to Fish
TaperSteve
10-20-2010, 04:07 PM
Ohh man it was soooo sooo bad! I still felt horrible all day yesterday! Thanx for all the tips!

TS
Swank909
10-21-2010, 12:49 AM
Congratulations on a Bug well deserved guys! Way to stick with it
goodtimes101
10-21-2010, 01:26 PM
Nice! chicken and hotdogs? i was going big and doin bonita and mackerel
eastonslight
10-27-2010, 09:13 PM
Nice, I need to get back out there!!
Sparky70
10-28-2010, 04:23 PM
Not sure if I'd eat that lobster if it ate that kind of chum????????
Seņor.Chilax
11-01-2010, 10:21 AM
Not sure if I'd eat that lobster if it ate that kind of chum????????

They eat rotten fish off the ocean floor, I think it's cool if it ate some fresh cat food.
TaperSteve
11-01-2010, 10:55 AM
He prob meant my over the boat chum.

TS
Seņor.Chilax
11-01-2010, 03:42 PM
He prob meant my over the boat chum.

TS

OHH... Ok. Those were some nasty noises you were making. HAHAHA!